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Hi HN,Lately Github PRs have been drowning in a flood of AI slop. I’ve been seeing it myself, and I’m not the only one: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2011819428061855915I think it’s great that folks are using AI tools to code faster and better, but too many folks are abusing them to make low-quality contributions to public repos. This takes a lot of reviewers’ mindshare.IMO there needs to be a mechanism to flag low-effort PRs with AI slop, so you can just skip reading them. So I built one: https://haystackeditor.com/slop-detectorIt’s a simple AI slop detector, and I also included some AI slop examples and a “Is it Slop or Not?” game for fun.It detects AI messups like: - changes totally unrelated to PR purpose - hallucinated functions - duplicate code (specifically, when the AI re-implements a functionality that already exists elsewhere) - terrible commentsWould you use a tool like this?
HN · launched Jan 16, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 75%) · 1 view
Niche: ai content detection software · 97 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
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Could you build this?
Partial The GitHub App interface and PR diff fetching are straightforward, but accurately detecting AI-generated low-quality code ('AI slop') requires sophisticated heuristic analysis, AST diffing, or fine-tuned detection models beyond simple prompts.
What it would actually take: A realistic version requires a GitHub App webhook handler that ingests PR diffs, parses abstract syntax trees (via tree-sitter) to identify repetitive boilerplate, hallucinated imports, and prompt leakage artifacts, and runs a calibrated ensemble of LLM evaluators or classifiers against historical PR datasets. Building reliable detection without drowning in false positives demands specialized data labeling and fine-tuning expertise on real-world code reviews.
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